Well...good news! This immersion project is officially half way complete. To add to the good news, I made a break through last night. At the beginning of this immersion, my roommate, Melissa, said that she would give up just Facebook for one whole day after we got back from spring break. Well, I happened to set it on my calendar in my alarm phone (don't worry, it isn't activated so I can't get texts or make calls), and last night at 11:45, the alarm went off saying that Melissa was to give up Facebook. We both completely forgot about this deal we made, but Melissa surprisingly held up her end of the deal.
Going an entire day without Facebook is a big feat for my roommate. In her classes that she finds boring, she spends the entire time online, at night before she goes to bed she spends a good two hours online, in fact she's one of my only friends that is online the majority of the time. I even wrote her a note before I went to class this morning to inspire her not to cheat. When I came back from class, Melissa was sitting on the futon, studying for one of her tests later this week. Now to normal people, that sounds like a normal thing, but if you knew my roommate, you'd know that she NEVER sits down and studies or does homework (at least that I've seen after living with her a semester and a half). I'm really proud of her for going today without her beloved social networking site. I asked her how she felt without Facebook and she said, "I'm good, I don't really feel left out...it hasn't been a living nightmare like I thought it would. I kind of feel like I don't know what's going on with everyone else, but I could do this for a couple more days. But if I did this on a day where I didn't have a lot of classes, I probably would've went absolutely insane." I plan to get more people to try it out just for one day in order for them to realize just how much time is spent online.
According to http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics, there are over 500 million active users in the Facebook community. At any given time of the day, at least 50% of those 500 million are online. Even more baffling than that, there are over 700 billion minutes per month spend on Facebook. That's 8,400,000,000,000 minutes per year spend on Facebook. Taking all of that data one step further, everyone's compiled Facebook is time makes up 15,981,735.16 years worth of time, spent on Facebook. Be baffled.
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